Ontology Documentation (Topbraid report)

Ontology Documentation (W3C style)

Ontology files (OWL – turtle)

Semantic Compliance in Finance

The Financial Regulation Ontologies (FRO) are an open source design published in Ontology Web Language (OWL).

FRO is a foundational part of a Semantic Web approach to regulatory compliance for financial institutions . Ontology Web Language (OWL) is a W3C standard with proven scalability, handling complexity in Bio and Medical field. In the ontology everything is a triple: data, schema, mapping, transformations, rules, … everything is stored a uniform cells of subject-predicate-object.

FinRegOnt is the core ontology for Financial Institution compliance. The content is common and needed for all subsectors. The operational ontologies for Insurance, Banking, Funds & Hedge Fund define content specific to the sub-domain:​

Semantic rules implement laws and regulations of Dodd-Frank and the Investment Adviser Act. An ontology version of SEC form ADV (advisors) loaded with fund data. The ontology evaluates, whether an advisor must register with the SEC.